In the late 1960s and early 70s, a new generation of filmmakers transformed the Western and breathed new life into a fading genre with these four landmark films. Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, an Academy Award nominee for original screenplay and Jerry Fielding's score, reinvented the shootout and revolutionized cinematic violence in 1969. Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) earned Julie Christie an Oscar nomination and rewrote the rules for Western antiheroes. Sydney Pollack received a Palme d'Or nomination in 1972 for redefining the iconic mountain man in Jeremiah Johnson. The Train Robbers (1973) introduced a humorous irony to a genre that had always been black and white.